Excuse me if it seems like I am shaking, but I am. I’m not nervous. Just excited. After waiting over…
Oak Harbor photographer Christopher Saxman likes to look up.
Perhaps it’s because he is an architect by trade and is enamored of the cornices of buildings.
But cornices are not the only things he likes to look at through a camera lens.
If you are American, the words “American experience” have a certain power to reverberate in the heart.
These words smack of the nation’s history and in the area of art, America experienced a cultural revolution with the birth of jazz and blues music.
Did fall come sneaking around the corner far too fast and with little warning?
It seems to me that one day we were running around in shorts and T-shirts, hearing talk of record temperatures in a few spots. The very next day, we’re shivering in our sweatshirts and searching for those heavy sweaters we tucked away only a couple of weeks ago.
Peter Lawlor shows off the new racer he will bring to Langley’s Soup Box Race this week.
Here’s a challenge for you.
Produce something that will appeal to the senses and emotions of a complete stranger. And don’t forget to include truth and beauty while you’re at it.
At a recent luncheon with friends, the conversation turned to “things I wish I’d done differently.”
This was triggered primarily by one woman’s lament that she’d waited far too long to take up painting, which is now her passion and which absorbs hours of her time every day.
After 12 years of running a private foreign language school, Josette Hendrix has said bonjour! to nonprofit status.
The Northwest Language Academy transitioned in May to become a nonprofit organization with a board of directors, a new location and its very own administrative staff.
Whidbey Island Center for the Arts has announced the cast for the first show of the theater season.
Good Cheer goes on the hunt for Whidbey’s best beans.
An island boy with supple fingers and a mountain of musical degrees and experience returns home for a special performance.
It has been nearly eight years since native islander and virtuoso classical guitarist Sean Vaughn Owen has been home to give a musical recital.
A letter can be a powerful thing.
The handwritten note leaves an indelible mark forever, not only on the ink-stained paper, but also in the heart of its reader.
American playwright A.R. Gurney knew this when he created his Pulitzer Prize nominated play “Love Letters.”
Every year, at about this time, you can expect the inevitable zucchini column.
For reasons unclear to me,
I always feel compelled to write about the many possible uses for the excess zucchini that is typically part of the bounty of late summer/early fall.
